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Lipreading the Apocalypse: This Week’s Best of the Web

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on November 18, 2018November 18, 2018

As the notorious commitment-phobe Charles Dickens once said, it was the best of times, it…

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This Week’s Best Of: I Believe Anita Hill

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on September 24, 2018September 24, 2018

  Lo these many years ago, a scruffy band of boho assholes with incomprehensible lyrics…

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Nostalgia for Other People’s Nostalgia: A Gen X Disease

  • by Jason Tebbe
  • Posted on September 12, 2018October 23, 2018

Boomer nostalgia is currently defining our reality. Trump is in office largely because a lot…

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America Needs a Definitive History of Dead Kennedys… And Here’s Why It Won’t Happen

  • by Will Greer
  • Posted on July 30, 2018August 23, 2018

I pledge to laugh At the Flag Of the United States of America And to…

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Fire Squad: For Love of City and Club

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on July 6, 2018July 22, 2018

The three of us were sitting outside at the beer garden, in the mild early…

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A Playlist for the Beautiful Game

  • by Romeo Guzman
  • Posted on July 1, 2018July 15, 2018

Finals Coming to you from Voutiro, Greece. I’ll be watching at the local coffee shop,…

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A Playlist for the Beautiful Game

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on June 14, 2018July 28, 2018

It started with a tweet on the Sunday before the World Cup. An innocent tweet.…

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Triumph of the Tragedy Queen: Lana, Sylvia Plath, and the Tragic Feminine

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on May 28, 2018July 2, 2018

The question is often asked: why is Lana Del Rey so cool? (As the singer-songwriter…

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